Harvard Classics

The School for Scandal (Act I), by Richard Brinsley Sheridan


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The painted lips of the eighteenth century ladies and gallants vied with one another in whispering scathing gossip, in gleefully furthering the destruction of a good name. Sheridan depicts this gay world with a brilliant spicy pen. (Volume 18, Harvard Classics)

Sheridan buried in Westminster Abbey, July 7, 1816.

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